28Job 28

1Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.Select Job 28:1

2Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.Select Job 28:2

3He sets an end to darkness, and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.Select Job 28:3

4The flood breaks out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.Select Job 28:4

5As for the earth, out of it comes bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.Select Job 28:5

6The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it has dust of gold.Select Job 28:6

7There is a path which no fowl knows, and which the vulture’s eye has not seen:Select Job 28:7

8The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.Select Job 28:8

9He puts forth his hand on the rock; he overturns the mountains by the roots.Select Job 28:9

10He cuts out rivers among the rocks; and his eye sees every precious thing.Select Job 28:10

11He binds the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid brings he forth to light.Select Job 28:11

12But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?Select Job 28:12

13Man knows not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.Select Job 28:13

14The depth says, It is not in me: and the sea said, It is not with me.Select Job 28:14

15It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.Select Job 28:15

16It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.Select Job 28:16

17The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.Select Job 28:17

18No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.Select Job 28:18

19The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.Select Job 28:19

20From where then comes wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?Select Job 28:20

21Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.Select Job 28:21

22Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.Select Job 28:22

23God understands the way thereof, and he knows the place thereof.Select Job 28:23

24For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven;Select Job 28:24

25To make the weight for the winds; and he weighs the waters by measure.Select Job 28:25

26When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:Select Job 28:26

27Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yes, and searched it out.Select Job 28:27

28And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.Select Job 28:28